Karly Fernandez
The paintings I create are tied to the way that my mind, body, and soul react to the things around me. My work Is influenced by a web of scientific methods, my consciousness within a space, and my spiritual beliefs. I have taken inspiration from the recurring patterns that are both invisible and visible to the naked eye. These paintings represent my mental relationships to a space and how I connect patterns within nature to small-scale scientific beings or large-scale spiritual beliefs. My work encapsulates the feeling of time passing and the slow accumulation of meaningful experiences. Each work is a depiction of a real moment from nature, but the painted representation acts as a much broader portrayal of my continuously evolving collection of ideas and interests. Everything responds to one another and everything is innately connected. My reference imagery is specific to central Oregon where I will soon be relocating. I used these site-specific photographs in order to create a reflection of my past and present within the explosion of the future. In these ambiguous yet familiar portraits of confined moments in nature I am eliciting the way that change, in both time and location, creates feelings of excitement and confusion.
In painting an image of a surface of a rock, I am considering the way that rock particles detach and erode to then be consumed by other molten matter. This new agglomeration stands as one new larger rock consisting of fragments of other beings. It now holds the histories of all the other smaller pieces within that have become one. The surface of this piece of earth grows moss, lichen and algae to home all the small beings that reside in this habitat. In thinking about the complexities of the history of a stone, I am reflecting on the simultaneous constructive and destructive life moments that have contributed to my own present being. My body of work defines the connection between all of the experiences and beliefs I have collected, how they have changed and shaped me, and how they will impact me in the future.
